Old Enough to Forget

I first heard of T-Bone Burnett when he was with the Alpha Band with Steven Soles and David Mansfield. I had a friend who had one of their albums. I can't remember which one, as I only heard it once, but it was quirky and caught my interest. Then I bought a copy of his 1982 EP Trap Door and pretty much played it to death. I loved the fact that he was self-effacing enough to make a joke about his passing resemblance to Eric Idle. The office where I worked used to have copies of People magazine, which I liked to read - for the record reviews. In one issue there was an article where Mariel Hemingway said her favourite album was T-Bone Burnett's Proof Through the Night. Well, I wasn't sold because of her endorsement; I was sold because I'd just realized there was a new T-Bone Burnett album. I remember talking about this with my girlfriend at the time, who absolutely loved The Who and The Monkees (she had great taste in music), and she casually mentioned that she saw T-Bon...